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Graduation address of Prof H Russel Botman
No full textGraduation Address of Prof H Russel Botman, late Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University, for his Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Aberdeen, delivered on his behalf by his widow, Mrs. Beryl Botman, Elphinstone Hall, Old Aberdeen, 8 July 2014
Russel Botman : 'n huldeblyk, 1953-2014
No full textCITATION: Grundlingh, A. M., Landman, R. & Koopman, N. (eds.) 2017. Russel Botman : 'n huldeblyk, 1953-2014. Stellenbosch: SUN MeDIA, doi:10.18820/9781928314264.The original publication is available at https://africansunmedia.store.it.si/zaHierdie herdenkingsbundel vertel die verhaal van wyle Russel Hayman Botman wat skielik oorlede is aan die begin van sy tweede termyn as Rektor en Visekanselier van die Universiteit Stellenbosch. Botman se verhaal vanaf sy vroegste kinderjare tot sy laaste dag as rektor word vertel. Huldeblyke en herdenkingsbundels kan uiteraard nooit uitgeput raak nie. Dit vertel ’n kleurryke verhaal uit bepaalde oogpunte. Nogtans dien dit as uitnodiging, inspirasie en aansporing vir ander wat ’n verbintenis met Botman het om ook hulle stories oor hom te vertel.Voorwoord / Nico Koopman; 1 Sy jeug- en studentejare / Cornelius Thomas; 2 Wie steek die kerse aan? sy rol as leraar en kerkleier / Johan G. Botha; 3 Sy lewe as teoloog / Dirkie Smit; 4 Sy didaktiek / Mary-Anne Plaatjes-Van Huffel, Anlene Taljaard; 5 As Viserektor (Onderrig): 1 Julie 2002 - 31 Desember 2006 / Ludolph Botha; 6 As bestuurder / Paul Cluver, Gerhard Lubbe; 7 HOOP Projek / Martin Viljoen; 8 Van uitnemendheid na betekenis - Botman in breer verband / Marita Hilliges, Andrew Casson; 9 Hope@Africa-projek / M.S. Tshehla; 10 Interaksie met Afrika-ewekniee / Thabo T Fako; 11 In Memoriam - 'n Rektor word onthou / Albert Grundlingh; 12 Nawoord / Beryl Botman.https://africansunmedia.store.it.si/za/book/russel-botman-n-huldeblyk-1953-2014/424171Publisher's versio
Russel Botman : a tribute, 1953-2014
No full textCITATION: Grundlingh, A. M., Landman, R. & Koopman, N. (eds.) 2017. Russel Botman : a tribute, 1953-2014. Stellenbosch: SUN MeDIA, doi:10.18820/9781928314240.The original publication is available at https://africansunmedia.store.it.si/zaThis celebratory volume tells the story of the late Russel Hayman Botman who died suddenly early in his second term as Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University. Botman’s story is told from his earliest childhood years until his last day as rector. The nature of tributes and celebratory volumes is that it can never be exhaustive. It tells a rich story from limited perspectives. It, however, serves as invitation, stimulus and inspiration to others connected to Botman to also tell their stories about his story.Preface / Nico Koopman; 1 His youth and student years / Cornelius Thomas; 2 Who lights the candles? his role as minister and church leader / Johan G. Botha; 3 His life as theologian / Dirkie Smit; 4 His didactics / Mary-Anne Plaatjes-Van Huffel, Anlene Taljaard; 5 As Vice-Rector (Teaching): 1 July 2002 - 31 December 2006 / Ludolph Botha; 6 As manager / Paul Cluver, Gerhard Lubbe; 7 HOPE Project / Martin Viljoen; 8 From excellence to significance - Botman in a wider context / Marita Hilliges, Andrew Casson; 9 Hope@Africa Project / M.S. Tsehla; 10 Interaction with African Counterparts / Thabo T. Fako; 11 In memoriam - a Rector remembered / Albert Grundlingh; 12 Epilogue / Beryl Botman.https://africansunmedia.store.it.si/za/book/russel-botman-a-tribute-1953-2014/424169Publisher's versio
Article about Beryl Bainbridge: Part 3
No full textArticle profiling 1973 Booker shortlisted author Beryl Bainbridg
The impact of projected greenhouse gas-induced climate change on the Australian wine industry
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 2006 Dr. Leanne Beryl WebbThe IPCC Third Assessment report (IPCC 2001a) concludes that Australia has significant vulnerability to the changes in temperature and rainfall projected over the next decades to 100 years. Agriculture and natural resources were two of the key sectors identified as likely to be strongly affected. Climate change will add to the existing, substantial pressures on Australia’s grape and wine industry sector. Vineyards have a life of thirty plus years so right now, when selecting vineyard sites, or when managing existing vineyards, consideration of the changing climate is prudent. (For complete abstract open document
Live From Bangalore
No full textIn this article, the author, Beryl Graham, discusses her experience traveling in India while writing an article for a US magazine. She wrote this article while on a train traveling between Bangalore and Mumbai on a research trip to Delhi in December 2000. The article was then emailed to the editors from the Cyberia web cafe in Bangalore. The author uses three countries, United Kingdom, United States, and India, to compare the use of new media and the fact that they share divisions within their basic socio-economic structures which leads to similar access to ideas and facilities. However, the author acknowledges that artists in India will generally know more about artists working in the West than the West would know about artists based in India. For example, Graham discusses the work of Indian artist Vivan Sundaram who has been making video installations and site specific work for many years but is not as well recognized in the US. The article discusses educational, social and commercial ventures which symbolizes the differences in cultures by media and personal diaspora. For example, the Indian Directory of Electronic Art CD-ROM magazine was produced in Delhi with limited resources, but was able to be circulated worldwide through the Media Art Industry
Educators, praxis and hope : a philosophical analysis of post-apartheid teacher education policy
No full textThesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation argues that teacher education and development policy lacks an explicit philosophy of education and a responding pedagogy that would promote transformation. Through a conceptual analysis of teacher education and development, the study points to a deficit in philosophical underpinning that calls for an inquiry into ontology − ways of being, and epistemology − ways of knowing to contribute to critical citizenship. I contend that it is in a Freirean philosophy of education and a pedagogy of hope that teacher education praxis establishes the notion of a teacher as an unfinished being. This dissertation contends that for this to become established practice, the authority of educators, teachers and learners, and their status as subjects of their own learning and teaching, have to become part of the reflexive praxis. A pedagogy of hope constitutes the unleashing of the emancipatory potential of a teacher as an agent of democratic change, authority and reflectiveness. In line with the National Development Plan and the Vision for 2030, and in order to make an impact on society, I suggest an agenda for mass-based dialogue for the re-orientation of current teacher education policy.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie proefskrif argumenteer dat beleid ten opsigte van onderwyseropleiding en -ontwikkeling nie eksplisiete opvoedingsfilosofie en ‘n ooreenstemmende pedagogie wat transformasie voorstaan, openbaar nie. ̓n Konseptuele analise van onderwyseropleiding en -ontwikkeling wys op die afwesigheid van ̓n filosofiese onderbou, wat vereis dat ’n ondersoek van ontologie, as wyses van wees of bestaan, en epistemologie, as wyses van weet of met kennis omgaan, tot kritiese burgerskap kan bydra. Ek gaan van die veronderstelling uit dat dit in ̓n opvoedingsfilosofie en ̓ isn pedagogie van hoop, soos deur Freire voorgestel, dat onderwyserpraksis die idee kan vestig van ̓n onderwyser as “onklare/onvoltooide wese”. Die proefskrif gaan verder van die veronderstelling uit dat om hierdie idee as praktyk te vestig, die outoriteit van die opvoeders, onderwysers en leerders en hulle status as onderwerpe van hulle eie leer en onderrig, deel moet word van hul refleksiewe praktyk. ̓n Pedagogie van hoop behels die ontketening van die emansipatoriese potensiaal van die onderwyser as agent vir demokratiese verandering, outoriteit en reflektiwiteit. In ooreenstemming met die Nasionale Ontwikkelingsplan en die Visie vir 2030, stel ek voor dat om ̓n impak op die samelewing te kan maak, ons ̓n agenda vir massagebaseerde dialoog ter bevordering van die reoriëntering van huidige onderwysopleidingsbeleid moet onderneem.Doctora
Beryl Bainbridge and her novels
No full textBeryl Bainbridge is a successful contemporary novelist who has produced ten novels over the past fifteen years, and her writing career shows every sign of extending well into the future. -- This Thesis comprises an introduction to this prolific writer by presenting some biographical data which shed some light on the author, her interests, the way she regards her own work, the background of each of her novels, and her views on contemporary life. It examines the accomplishment of Bainbridge up to the present by providing a critical survey of her novels in order of publication. An attempt has been made to find themes and ideas consistent in her work and to show how she has developed. -- She is an empirical writer whose emotionally traumatic childhood had a seminal influence on her fiction which is evidenced in her tacit admiration for intensity of feeling. -- Under her father's influence, Bainbridge developed a reverence for the past - a preoccupation which is particularly apparent in her early novels where she patterned her fictional characters on memories of her own family and depicted the odd little incidents of family life in the Forties. Her strong nostalgia for the past includes place as she sensitively evokes her native Lancashire. -- Mr. Bainbridge also instilled in his daughter a deep awareness of the essential loneliness of man, an obsession which accounts for the recurrent themes of isolation, loss and departure so prominent in her work. -- Bainbridge recognizes imperfections. She acknowledges failure, ugliness, squalor and corruption as an inescapable part of life. In later novels she becomes more absorbed in the ills of contemporary society. Declining moral standards, increase in crime and violence, and disregard for law and order are the conditions under which hapless characters succumb to falling standards in spite of themselves. Seldom actively pursuing evil, they are contaminated by an evil world. -- She finds humanity varied, unpredictable, full of short-comings and all too vulnerable in a perplexing world. She repeatedly stresses the oddness and incomprehensibility of people and life. Her realistic concerns, original views, polished style and delightful humour make Beryl Bainbridge a fine novelist.Bibliography: leaves 237-24
Reproductive plasticity and the evolution of the insect societies
No full textA fundamental goal of evolutionary biology is to understand how novel traits arise. Eusociality represents an extreme form of social organization which has evolved independently a number of times across insects and is characterized especially in the Hymenoptera by a novel polyphenism between reproductive (queen) and non-reproductive (worker) castes. While a growing body of research continues to improve our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the development of these castes, less is known about how castes evolved from solitary ancestors. In this dissertation, I leverage naturally-occurring social plasticity in two species of bees to shed light on potential mechanisms of caste evolution across social insects. In Chapter 1, I provide a detailed overview of the work contained within this dissertation. In Chapter 2, I develop a perspective on how ancestral behavioral plasticity may have facilitated the evolution of castes through genetic accommodation. In Chapter 3, I present a de novo transcriptome assembly for Megalopta genalis, a facultatively eusocial sweat bee that exhibits multiple social phenotypes within one population and may therefore represent a transition between solitary and social reproduction. I use this transcriptome in Chapter 4 to identify gene expression differences associated with social phenotypes of M. genalis, and compare these to genes involved in caste determination of other eusocial species as well as genes implicated in the evolution of eusociality through comparative studies of bees. In Chapter 5, I use a high-resolution behavioral tracking system to discover a previously undescribed form of colony organization in honey bees that occurs after a colony loses and is unable to replace its queen and some workers begin to lay eggs. Surprisingly similar to the social variation observed across nests of M. genalis, these colonies of honey bee workers display multiple levels of social plasticity, evoking transitional stages in eusocial evolution associated with the venerable Ovarian Ground Plan Hypothesis. Finally, in Chapter 6, I use transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility analyses of bees in laying worker colonies to explore how changes in brain gene regulation may contribute to variation in colony social organization, with comparative analyses to place this variation in the broader context of caste evolution across social insect lineages.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2021-05-01The student, Beryl Jones, accepted the attached license on 2019-03-10 at 12:12.The student, Beryl Jones, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-03-10 at 12:28.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2019-03-11 at 14:07.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13418 on 2019-08-22 at 16:20:16Made available in DSpace on 2019-08-23T20:44:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 7
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